MAA is converted to full online journal free access
to whole texts as .pdf files from last year. The process is ongoing.
The printed version (2001-2014) is kept only if authors ask for back
issues or if individuals or libraries require printed volumes.

As from 2015 frequency is increased to 3 times per year and
there is an advertisement page too. The Journal will keep the rapid
reviewing procedure following the standard double blind review and
ensures swift publication of high quality papers in innovation or
important applications and excavation reports related to the
Mediterranean region.

Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry (MAA) is an
interdisciplinary International Journal issued by The University of the
Aegean, Department of Mediterranean Studies, Rhodes, Greece. MAA is
published since 2001 and from 2008 is operating in updated format.

In the EAGLE project, we believe that every inscription has a story
to tell! It is thanks to inscriptions that we are informed of several
details of the every-day life in Antiquity; inscriptions can be used to
open a window on our past and start a fascinating journey among men that
lived in Europe thousands of years ago. For instance, would you like to
know how people used to celebrate victories in the most important national athletic and cultural competitions of Athens? Or how dangerous it was to cross the Alps travelling from Italy to the city of Emona (actual Slovenia) in the Roman times?

This is the kind of stories that we’d like to collect from our
audience, and this is where our Storytelling App comes to help! A story
is a narrative that can be enhanced by all the multimedia content that
can help the readers (especially the non-specialists) understand and
contextualize the words of the text. Furthermore, we should never forget
that an inscription is a beautiful multimedia object! Therefore, we
want to enable our authors to insert pictures and other representations
to help your audience imagine what the visual impact of the inscribed
monument was and still is.

Lucio
Cassio Filippo, his wife Atilia Pomptilla together with Filippo’s
father were exiled to Sardinia by the Emperor Nero, probably because
they were opponents of his power. They spent their lives in Karalis
(modern Cagliari). Pomptilla and Filippo, in spite of their condition,
lived happily together for 42 years, unfortunately Filippo fell
seriously ill during the exile (because of malaria, a common disease
because of the unhealthy environment in some places of the ancient
Sardinia) and his faithful wife, so in love with him, asked the Gods to
let her die instead of her husband. Even if it seems impossible, her
prayers were fulfilled: Filippo healed and she suddenly died as in the
myth of Alcestis. Filippo also died a little later and his ashes were
preserved close to his wife’s. The incredible story of this love is
witnessed by the inscriptions of the so called “Viper’s Cave”.

...The aim of the excavations at Elephantine is to provide a
coherent picture of the different parts of an ancient settlement and the
interrelations between its temples, houses and cemeteries. Detailing
the cultural development of the site, and using it as a source to
extrapolate settlement patterns in other, less archaeologically
accessible settlements is part of the objective of the mission. It is a
rare moment when mud-brick settlement remains can be viewed by the
public. This was formally made available as an open-air onsite museum in
1998.

The research program at Elephantine intends to not only excavate
large portions of the site and to study and restore it, but to try to
understand Elephantine’s role in the larger economical, political,
ethnical and social contexts, both on the regional and the
supra-regional level. The work aims to follow, diachronically, the
developments across the different époques and disciplines. For such an
approach, the preservation of the site and its layers with its moderate
extension offers ideal conditions. Currently, the mission is
supporting the efforts of the Supreme Council of Antiquities to restore
and refurbish the old museum on Elephantine Island...

Our "Portal" is one of the biggest of the egyptological web. Continuously updated, it features pages, that means that a web site can be listed several times according to its content. This thematic approach makes it very useful. The sub-divisions of our portal are:

Our "Encyclopedia" is for the layman and the egyptologist alike. It has short notices and articles, with links to relevant egyptian inscriptions in adobat pdf format. For instance, someone interested in the reign of king Ahmose will be able to download its great inscription in Karnak, the autobiography of Ahmose, son of Abana, and the donation stela of queen Ahmose-Nefertary. It is like a virtual library at your disposal.We also produce CD-Rom reeditions of ancient and useful egyptological books. They are in our "Library" section.

The aim of our "Virtual tour" is to provide photographs of archaelogical sites. They are rationnaly classified, according to the numerotation and the maps of the "Porter and Moss". It takes time to make it. If you want to share your photographs too, you are quite welcome.

The "Professional" section presents research works, interviews, and lists hundreds of academic researches. If you are writing a Ph.D which is not listed, please contact us.

We also host a "Forum", in fact a discussion list, and you are welcome to join.

Our "News" are also regularly updated, and provide information on discoveries and symposiums alike.

Lastly, our "Travel" section, still under development, will present some facts helping to arrange travels to Egypt.

I hope you will find Thotweb useful. Don't hesitate to let me know of any criticism or remarks you might like to do.

Wikipedia currently hosts around 200 biographies of classicists,
of which only approximately 10% are of women. This WCC initiative is
taking steps towards redressing this gender imbalance, by training and
encouraging classicists to edit Wikipedia with this focus.

We are offering a free face-to-face training event and editathon,
supported by Wikimedia UK, to launch a programme of more informal remote
editing sessions. This launch event will take place at the Institute of
Classical Studies (ICS), Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU,
from 10.30-17.30 on 23rd January 2017.

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of the ICS this event is free to
attend, with lunch and coffee provided. Places are, however, limited,
and registration is therefore essential. For those unable to travel to
London, participation via Skype is also possible. Participants with
disabilities are welcome; if you need particular support to enable you
to take part, please let us know.

To reserve a place (either to participate in person or via Skype) and
for further details please email the organisers, Claire Millington
(claire.millington [at] kcl.ac.uk) and Emma Bridges (e.e.bridges [at]
open.ac.uk) by 16th January 2017.

Hello! My name is Charlie and this is my comic! Well, it’s not entirely my comic… I am translating and adapting a 2000+ year old Latin poem called the Metamorphoses.
It’s written by a real awesome dude named Ovid, who lived approximately
43 BCE – 17/18 CE – so, really, he should get the writing credit…
I’ve modified some things here and there, so I will always post the
corresponding lines of the poem below, along with my translation. (Latin
nerds: feel free to email me and criticise my translation!) It is my
stated goal to remain as faithful to the poem as possible, but I do like
to make it accessible to modern audiences at the same time. So, check
the Latin and throw something at me if I deviate too far!

I’m also doing a little PhD dissertation on this poem, so I will gush
about the poem and the context below, if you fancy a gander at my
ramblings…

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.